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> Their only hopes of being taken seriously as an Expert - a position our culture treats as the height of dignity - is to create a complete alternate system of
by pmdulaney 5y ago
> Their only hopes of being taken seriously as an Expert - a position our culture treats as the height of dignity - is to create a complete alternate system of knowledge, ungrounded in any previous system, where they can end up as an expert on the Lizard Papacy.
This is true, but I'm not sure that viewed from the larger perspective this is an unalloyed good. Sure we can do without crackpots. But do we really want the only voices that matter to be those belonging to persons with "PhD" attached to their names?
- whimsicalism 5y agoI am not sure if the article is presenting it as an unalloyed good, but I certainly agree with you. We need to be thoughtful about how we design "epistemic communities." The current approach centered around normal institutions/academia I think is flawed (although I do think professional scientists are very important). You can look at some philosophers of science who have thinking very much along these lines, ie. https://www.liamkofibright.com/research.html https://www.liamkofibright.com/research.html